Books of Elmo

'Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man’s face. It cannot be concealed.'

'I was dominated, soul, brain and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream. I worshipped you'

'I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.'

'He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same'

'Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest, as long as I am living! You said I killed you—haunt me, then!* The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe—I know that ghosts have wandered on earth.'

'I “never told my love*” vocally; still, if looks have language, the merest idiot might have guessed I was over head and ears'

‘I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.’

'He made me love him without looking at me.'

‘I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will;